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[SPEAKER_01]: Hi, I'm Larry King.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you spend your days rushing to the nearest bathrooms?

[SPEAKER_02]: Michael Mara, radio entertainment.

[SPEAKER_02]: Do you?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to our show.

[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to start with the race.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There's plenty for everyone.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's the Michael Mero Show with Michael Mero.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Josh Rooka.

[SPEAKER_02]: John!

[SPEAKER_02]: And Rob Speedway.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's only the beginning.

[SPEAKER_04]: And now, here's Mike.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hi, this is Larry King.

[SPEAKER_04]: Do you find yourself struggling to go to the bathroom?

[SPEAKER_04]: Hi.

[SPEAKER_04]: You have to find the bathroom first, Larry.

[SPEAKER_04]: I find the bathroom.

[SPEAKER_04]: The late Larry King.

[SPEAKER_04]: Where is he?

[SPEAKER_04]: He's dead.

[SPEAKER_04]: He passed.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's sad, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: He's thrown off the mortal coil.

[SPEAKER_04]: He's gone to the hear after.

[SPEAKER_04]: He's no longer, he is a dead parent.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's a dead king.

[SPEAKER_04]: A dead king.

[SPEAKER_04]: Whoa!

[SPEAKER_04]: Morn the bias, children, and chance.

[SPEAKER_04]: And canon.

[SPEAKER_03]: What about Kaya?

[SPEAKER_04]: Kaya the older daughter.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm a previous from one of many previous.

[SPEAKER_04]: Many previous merges.

[SPEAKER_02]: There you go.

[SPEAKER_04]: I Larry King.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hi.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hi, how are you?

[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, welcome to the Michael Marisho for a Tuesday ladies and gentlemen.

[SPEAKER_04]: We uh,

[SPEAKER_04]: We mentioned on yesterday's show that we would have a major announcement and I guess that's on me to do the announcement because I do major announcements on the show and I have a significant announcement for listeners of this show and also for myself.

[SPEAKER_04]: on January the weekend of January 21st.

[SPEAKER_04]: That will be our last podcast as the Michael Marasho and I know this might come as a bit of a shock.

[SPEAKER_04]: Doesn't come as a shock to the boys because we discussed this week or so ago and we were talking about what comes next and all that but I wanted to, I was doing crunching some

[SPEAKER_04]: for in one form or the other in one medium or the other for 46 years.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, since I was born.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was going to say that job is great, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: About what month?

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: You go back to what year were you born?

[SPEAKER_04]: You were born in 1980.

[SPEAKER_04]: 1980.

[SPEAKER_05]: I probably started commercial radio in 1980 myself.

[SPEAKER_04]: I have been on the air as long as my wife has been alive, as long as you have been alive.

[SPEAKER_04]: I started at American University.

[SPEAKER_03]: I was dying when you started my early...

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm the old timer.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_05]: I was on TV, not the radio.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's true.

[SPEAKER_04]: I started when I was a junior in college in earnest, where that was my first technical real commercial.

[SPEAKER_04]: that I did, and then I did that junior and senior year at American University, and then I went to work on right out of college, I started working in radio, and it's, you know, it's as the very

[SPEAKER_04]: In our medium, just like in a lot of broadcasting, radio and digital, been extremely tough, very, very difficult.

[SPEAKER_04]: I have said to our listening audience, we need this, we need this, we've been doing it together with a bailing wire and duct tape, and we have, you know, even with all of that, it has been a joy.

[SPEAKER_04]: to do this show and I can talk about that down the rub because we've got lots of shows planned between now and the way we have structured this is that the last podcast we do and this is what I always said to myself when I end my career I want I want it somehow associated with Jimmy Buffett.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I mean, you've been planning it for years.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, Mike, so often you and Jen, and I like to call him Jim.

[SPEAKER_04]: You and Jim Buffett.

[SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[SPEAKER_03]: The late Jim Buffett.

[SPEAKER_03]: Your careers have really worked in parallel with you, like when you own the restaurant.

[SPEAKER_04]: What were your busiest days, except when Jim Buffett would play the Nissan Favillium with the jamming up root 66 when he was at it.

[SPEAKER_04]: The pinnacle.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: We were a restaurant full of what were called parrot heads.

[SPEAKER_03]: Overman, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: It's also the perfect symbol for retirement.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, it is.

[SPEAKER_04]: It is indeed a parent.

[SPEAKER_03]: Mike, if I see you hanging around in a Hawaiian shirt, I swear I'm gonna hit you on the head with a bottle.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, don't do that.

[SPEAKER_04]: Sure, we will have some of those.

[SPEAKER_04]: So it's been challenging in radio and digital.

[SPEAKER_04]: Anybody that pays attention to the business side of things knows, cumulus has been, you know, Samara, Samara, what's the word I'm using?

[SPEAKER_04]: Samarily, you know, laying off people on a regular basis.

[SPEAKER_04]: Methotic.

[SPEAKER_04]: it's been terrible for them.

[SPEAKER_04]: The support that we have received over the years for this incarnation of the show has been nothing short of fantastic.

[SPEAKER_04]: We have been thrilled with it.

[SPEAKER_04]: It has been a delight to have the intimacy.

[SPEAKER_04]: I always thought radio,

[SPEAKER_04]: was the most intimate medium and then i found out no podcasting is because you have a captured group of people that have been part of this and uh... and that i will never be able to properly thank everybody that's uh... that's done that the support is kept us checking along

[SPEAKER_04]: And we're talking about not collective support, individual support.

[SPEAKER_04]: People like Kathy Fyfer, who is now battling her own demons as she's in a cancer fight, and I wanted to say much love to Kathy, you know, hang in there, hang tough.

[SPEAKER_04]: We love you, and good luck with all of that, and Kathy was instrumental in keeping this thing going at the very, very, very, very beginning.

[SPEAKER_04]: people like Dirk Vastrick who has they've been so gent in generous.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then in the list goes on and on and on.

[SPEAKER_04]: I talk about people that have reached out to us at different times when we needed the most.

[SPEAKER_04]: And even as recently as doing our auction where we had that and people kept this thing chugging along.

[SPEAKER_04]: It really is appreciated by every single one of us.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm thrilled that I've been able to do this as long as I've done it.

[SPEAKER_04]: But when I realized, when I was thinking to myself before I was, when I was contemplating this move of retirement.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I don't consider it early retirement.

[SPEAKER_04]: I consider it retiring at the age of 67.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's actually a little late, isn't it?

[SPEAKER_04]: to his brother's brothers.

[SPEAKER_04]: I would have done it when I was in my mid 40s, but that didn't work out that well.

[SPEAKER_03]: But I love how close did you ever get?

[SPEAKER_03]: Did you ever get close enough of the thought you could you could just say I'm done now?

[SPEAKER_05]: No, I bet two less wives than you could.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, a hundred percent.

[SPEAKER_03]: And you know what?

[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's also, it should be mentioned that both wives have retired.

[SPEAKER_04]: And doing quite well.

[SPEAKER_04]: The, no, I never thought about it after, I wrote this down.

[SPEAKER_04]: I wanted to make sure I got it right.

[SPEAKER_04]: When we started this enterprise, the podcast, and I mentioned Josh Robinite because Rob was part of it.

[SPEAKER_04]: at the beginning.

[SPEAKER_04]: We started it in 2009.

[SPEAKER_04]: I really expected it to be a side hustle and that side hustle has continued for 17 years, which blows me out of the water that this thing continued.

[SPEAKER_04]: This was a long time ago.

[SPEAKER_03]: You were at WJFK.

[SPEAKER_04]: longer than I was at JFK was a backup plan to being back on the radio.

[SPEAKER_04]: I started this podcast and took another job after I was at CBS radio for a very long time and that format changed and then it was the podcast and at that point I went, it's just the podcast.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what I want to focus on.

[SPEAKER_04]: With that in mind, I did not perceive that podcasts would be the way people consume this kind of medium.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, it was so early in the morning.

[SPEAKER_03]: If you go back to December 7th, 2009, podcasting was so foreign to everybody then.

[SPEAKER_03]: We were real early on the boat.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I remember we had a lunch together, Mike, with some other people.

[SPEAKER_03]: And they had to explain to us really what a podcast was.

[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I mean the whole notion and the way that it was really the first thing that's sunk into me, it's like radio DVR.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be there for you whenever you want to listen.

[SPEAKER_03]: And while we were accustomed to doing four hours a day, every day, the hard thing was wrapping her head around the fact that no one was listening to all four hours.

[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

[SPEAKER_03]: We were just leaving a four hour window.

[SPEAKER_03]: They could listen.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now we're giving them an hour or so.

[SPEAKER_03]: That they could listen to on their schedule and it made perfect sense, but that doesn't mean anyone outside of podcasters knew what podcasting was No, I believe my he went into famous words.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'm not one of you.

[SPEAKER_04]: I got one of you first episode of that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I remember saying that because some guy I don't even remember the guy's name said welcome to the family.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is a guy that really was You know, did it out of the mother's basement and it was just a I wanted to make sure that you know I was still in my heart and I always have been a radio person

[SPEAKER_04]: that's what I think of myself as.

[SPEAKER_04]: And, you know, it's just something that I never really wrapped my head around until we were well into it.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then it just grew around us.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I was looking at that saying, wow, okay, this is a thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then,

[SPEAKER_04]: everybody started doing it.

[SPEAKER_04]: And that was only in the last seven to 10 years that everyone started doing it.

[SPEAKER_04]: And because of that, it's been a challenge because so many people do it.

[SPEAKER_04]: And like radio, very similar to radio, certain personalities,

[SPEAKER_05]: dominate and that's always the way it's been it's been that way from for broadcasting as well certain people dominate and the other people struggle that's kind of the way it goes go ahead John.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think there was a change in podcast and through the pandemic where that's where you saw the celebrities move to the podcast and of oh I can just do this from my home.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, there was a lot of affected things.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, even, I believe Saturday night live didn't episode that was essentially podcasts from the people's homes during the pandemic.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was became a mocked too.

[SPEAKER_04]: The format and podcasts were mocked and now not so much anymore because this is what a lot of people do.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now the problem with it is that much like when radio was live and local, yeah, good.

[SPEAKER_04]: and you had very bad.

[SPEAKER_04]: And in the world of podcasting, you have good and you have very, very bad.

[SPEAKER_04]: But even the good, there's a lot of it.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's a lot of it compared to, say, streaming television.

[SPEAKER_04]: Streaming television, there's bad and good, but it's much more limited than podcasts.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I mean, you don't know where to start or where it ends with podcasts.

[SPEAKER_03]: podcasting is so niche that when you got your start, I mean, you weren't what is known as a full service station, but still, you had to appeal to the wideest swath of people you could from the youngsters.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but I mean, that's really what radio at that time was based in now, let's say you want to talk about crocheting, there are 14 podcasts that are dedicated to crocheting.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's it.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I mean,

[SPEAKER_03]: What we do is a little bit of a limited I mean it's a little bit old school because we still we do we cover a lot of stuff and that's kind of fun Yesterday Josh and I were having an exchange.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is when I heard this is when this is when the funny

[SPEAKER_04]: comes into play because Josh is great at thinking one or two steps ahead and we've had discussions on how this is going to look and I'll mention it in a second what's next because the guys are definitely going to be continuing on which is great as it gets for me.

[SPEAKER_04]: The thing about doing the last show on the cruise ship,

[SPEAKER_04]: Is that Josh hits me yesterday with the, have you thought about what we would?

[SPEAKER_04]: What we could read?

[SPEAKER_04]: Remame the grooves.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and suddenly I found myself in a very awkward Position to not really know what to say to him and and I just didn't know You did it with me a little bit, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: That we've been very rarely see from you, which is

[SPEAKER_04]: Let me get back to you because you are not you are not a get back to your later type of guy You know make a decision in the case of type of guy I name things and I'm a name or I've always been a name I'm good at it and I do that all the time and then this one was just like and so Josh I mean two minutes before we started taping this podcast

[SPEAKER_04]: Josh comes to me and the funny of it is so funny that I have to share it with you right now because as opposed to the T.M.

[SPEAKER_04]: OS cruise 2027, we are now going to refer to the cruise as the final voyage.

[SPEAKER_04]: the final voyage.

[SPEAKER_04]: I love it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I love it.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's so great because we really didn't have a name or an angle leading up to it and now we've got something real solid.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god.

[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_05]: And then Rob came in with the music for Titanic, all right.

[SPEAKER_04]: Turn that crap off.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, the T.M.O.S.

[SPEAKER_04]: crews and listen, it wouldn't, it would be disingenuous for me to say that I thought this would be a really, really good way to boost the ticket sales, the cabin sales on the cruise ship.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I'm not faking this.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is right.

[SPEAKER_03]: I was going to say will you go on the record saying that this is not a stunt.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's not a stunt.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's a stunt.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not going to say on the cruise.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to say, well, you never say never to anything.

[SPEAKER_04]: You never do.

[SPEAKER_04]: I, but I, I have every intention of making this the last, uh, T. M. OS show that that we do.

[SPEAKER_04]: I, because I don't know you stay in on.

[SPEAKER_03]: I have my people do an excursion on Cosmo and whether and not he makes it back remains to be seen.

[SPEAKER_04]: By the way, you know, I have, I don't want to take anything away from that fine Mexican town.

[SPEAKER_03]: But it's an island.

[SPEAKER_03]: Is it more than a town?

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it's a town in an island.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's a town in Mexico.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's a town in Mexico.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I was reviewing the top

[SPEAKER_04]: 20, like the worst of first locations for cruise ships.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I think that CosML was really good, but you have to travel.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I think you have to plan your excursions so you can see some very cool.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because they have an expensive water park.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think they do.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think they did do they have a place where you know the worst one is jealous hot what the worst one is NASA note I have a problem with that where they're reaching in your wall before you even get off the plank you know I mean the gang I've heard from so many people that are experienced cruisers that unless you've got something you got to see on the excursion

[SPEAKER_03]: That's the time to stay on the boat.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because the boat is not crowded and you don't have to deal with all the non-judgment.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm thinking on the fly right here because somebody says, make sure we have all the old content to re-listen to please.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's something we haven't talked about.

[SPEAKER_04]: So maybe we will have that available.

[SPEAKER_04]: I know you're coming up with a way to make that possible.

[SPEAKER_03]: Most of it is available on the new app.

[SPEAKER_03]: You can go and search by title.

[SPEAKER_03]: You can make it back in history.

[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, you can grab it.

[SPEAKER_04]: We really, uh, if you were on the fence about joining us, please, I'd love to have as many of you as possible for the historic final, uh, final show that now, that's stop.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, like, that is not, you know, for someone, there are people out there.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, what?

[SPEAKER_03]: There are people out there that when they grew up, radio was very important to them.

[SPEAKER_03]: I can't even explain it to my 25-year-old daughter.

[SPEAKER_03]: How important radio was when I was her age.

[SPEAKER_03]: And because of that, I wanted to do it, and this is the honest truth, if it hadn't been for you and Don on the radio, I wouldn't have done it.

[SPEAKER_03]: So you have steered my life in ways that you don't even know about most of the good things in my life that happened to me is due to my association with you and the fact that you are leaving the airwaves to me is historic.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I think it is to a lot of

[SPEAKER_04]: That's it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I appreciate that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think that the another very pleasant thing is that you are continuing with Josh.

[SPEAKER_04]: We don't I wrote this down frankly.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what to expect in the future.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I do plan to have a future in digital just not long form like podcast anymore.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's not the case with Rob and Josh, I'm not sure, you know, we were talking last week and this week about what that looks like and we have a nail that down just yet.

[SPEAKER_03]: It is mostly what we're doing, I mean, just to be vague.

[SPEAKER_03]: Have you ever seen the show The Amazing Race?

[SPEAKER_03]: It's kind of half amazing race and a half fear factor, so it's going to be exciting, though.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's big stuff.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I think that, you know, that comes a time when you're just like saying to yourself, you know, I've enjoyed the idea of coming in and flapping my gums about.

[SPEAKER_04]: anything that excites me, bothers me, makes me emotional, makes me happy, makes me sad.

[SPEAKER_04]: And that will be, I am 100% sure that's going to be what I miss the most is coming in and sharing.

[SPEAKER_04]: There have been times in my life that things have been going well, where I have

[SPEAKER_04]: just love sharing things on the podcast.

[SPEAKER_04]: There have been times in my life on radio and on a podcast where I've been going through, you know, some of the worst things a person can can go through and having the ability to come in here and talk into a microphone and share has been fantastic.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's a weird

[SPEAKER_04]: type of person that can do this every single day.

[SPEAKER_04]: You have to be, we've discussed it.

[SPEAKER_04]: You have to be a little broken.

[SPEAKER_04]: You have to be somewhat of an exhibitionist.

[SPEAKER_04]: You love to share.

[SPEAKER_04]: And having this and having it go away is going to be

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, when I wake up when we get back from the cruise and I'm realizing, oh my God, I'd love to get in here and talk about that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think that there will be, you know, little shorts that will be involved in my life and I've even talked to my wife about it.

[SPEAKER_04]: That, you know, a little blurb here, a little blurb there.

[SPEAKER_04]: I, I look forward to doing that as well, just to share because I don't want to stop sharing.

[SPEAKER_03]: You say that sharing is what you will miss the most.

[SPEAKER_03]: At number two, would you say it's on boarding client calls for the podcast?

[SPEAKER_03]: Why?

[SPEAKER_03]: Why?

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, it's funny.

[SPEAKER_04]: You mentioned that that I, what robbery first to is that with clients,

[SPEAKER_04]: and Rob and Josh have both relieved me of a lot of that responsibility.

[SPEAKER_04]: And by the way, coming out publicly with this, we've been discussing this for a while now, but with the modified schedule, that's the wind down as well, that

[SPEAKER_04]: That, you know, as opposed to coming in and saying, I'm done, see you later, you know, I thought we'd have a long window, but at the same time, I, you know, I came to this decision because I, I'm done and I'm ready to, to end things and I wanted to modify the schedule as well.

[SPEAKER_04]: So when I read that people are like, you know, hey, what's that all about?

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, what that is all about, hopefully now, you know, that, you know, I come in here through a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, to a bonus show on Wednesday,

[SPEAKER_04]: you get me four days a week and you get the other guys on the fifth day and that helps with their transition as well.

[SPEAKER_04]: Rob and Josh are two guys that have been there for me every step of the way and they are also they have developed a very very unique.

[SPEAKER_04]: Friendship that translates into the show as well and who knows what the future looks like with that but you guys I don't speak for you, but I know you you are planning to do your own thing as well, correct?

[SPEAKER_04]: absolutely yeah okay so we hope any people come along for the ride it's going to be do you want to speak up on that one I didn't hear from you I wasn't sure yes yes I believe just finding out about it I think we'll do something thank you Josh now we shaded so much we have a

[SPEAKER_05]: But as you said earlier, we talked a week and a half ago or so about this and since then Robin, I've been laying down plans and we're almost ready to announce what we'll be doing but we want today to be about you in your future.

[SPEAKER_04]: And you know, but I didn't, I think people do get concerned.

[SPEAKER_04]: Doing it stand.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's still got entertained.

[SPEAKER_04]: People are going to be entertained.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, whatever you do, I'd love to come back and visit to you.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you know, we said this bind is open invitation.

[SPEAKER_05]: We're going to make retirement updates.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: And little league updates.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, amen.

[SPEAKER_04]: So let me say I want to make sure I get everything.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you guys have plans to continue I'm excited For what they plan to do with their continued love of the medium and when we sail into the sunset on January 21st the weekend of January 21st Turn it off turn it off It's just a little musical feeling like the end of the sunset January 21st 2027 The Michael Mary show on that boat

[SPEAKER_04]: in the middle of the ocean the Gulf of uh... america and what that's not what it is uh... we will uh... we will take our uh... last episode and it will be in front of a live audience and we are very very excited and uh... yes i think we will take the tape of that actual last podcast and and shoot it off the side of the boat

[SPEAKER_03]: as burial it's going to be a that'll be a second ceremony.

[SPEAKER_03]: It is just beautiful.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now I will entertain questions from both my co-hosts and also anyone in the comments that has any question someone says can we jettison Mike like they did?

[SPEAKER_04]: No, no because he has plans.

[SPEAKER_04]: I have plans.

[SPEAKER_04]: I have plans.

[SPEAKER_04]: have a virtual, uh, a fake burial at sea.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, I'm not dying.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm just no longer doing the micro-marish show, and by the way, uh, to the best of my knowledge, I have no major health issues, and I'm happy about that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Did we save the receipt on your backdrop?

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you think we can get any money back on that?

[SPEAKER_04]: I think I threw away the, um,

[SPEAKER_04]: I think I threw away with the last garage cleaning.

[SPEAKER_04]: I threw away the container.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, not the container, the tube, the tube that it comes in.

[SPEAKER_03]: I guess, I guess, would also be safe to get rid of the lighting attachment, the gobo, that goes on stage lights that says the Michael Marshall.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're those, we're those hiding.

[SPEAKER_03]: Those were my safe.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're in your, yeah, I mean, I was, I was told to keep these very safe.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I did, I put them in my, my, my safe.

[SPEAKER_04]: The show the artwork again for the final voyage.

[SPEAKER_04]: I want to look at I like there's something about that.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

[SPEAKER_03]: Vegas selling movie of all time.

[SPEAKER_03]: Come on.

[SPEAKER_03]: Let's hit your wagon to a star.

[SPEAKER_04]: Please don't do that to me.

[SPEAKER_04]: Find other sad music.

[SPEAKER_04]: That is it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know why I hate that.

[SPEAKER_05]: But I do you at the end of the cruise dropping your microphone into the water.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's right.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I will try and make it in the car.

[SPEAKER_04]: Daniel Thurbers says can we auction off a sprinkling of mics at all right, I'm not dying no I am not dying.

[SPEAKER_03]: I am no longer there is no health issue right Mike again You can say it on the right there is no health issue at play here

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I would I do nobody's winking.

[SPEAKER_04]: I tell you I do love the idea of a Viking funeral though.

[SPEAKER_04]: I've never watched that show But I get lots of clips of the show Vikings.

[SPEAKER_04]: Did either one of you ever watch Vikings not a football That's who they played that's who the giant's lost to in their preseason game sad right

[SPEAKER_04]: Nice to see, you know, our main man, Jackson Dart, almost got another season ending concussion like in free season.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's the commander's game plan.

[SPEAKER_04]: You're supposed to tell your food.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's the thing about the NFL.

[SPEAKER_04]: You never know when someone is going to have their last play of the season.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's the nature of the beast with the collision sports.

[SPEAKER_04]: So we'll, yes, go ahead.

[SPEAKER_04]: I've got to, I've got a question for you.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, fine.

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, chat gets to the questions ready.

[SPEAKER_05]: until yesterday.

[SPEAKER_05]: You were very uncomfortable with the word retire.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, to the point of not letting us say retire or retirement.

[SPEAKER_05]: And I noticed yesterday you started using that word because it's the truth.

[SPEAKER_04]: I am retiring from doing this show.

[SPEAKER_04]: I might my plans are to have a digital presence, but in short form.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what I'm doing.

[SPEAKER_04]: I have a, I've already researched the, there's going to be a new name for it.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it's going to be something that I, that gets it out of my system.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I wanted it to be organic.

[SPEAKER_04]: And the problem with content like that is, uh,

[SPEAKER_04]: You have to think differently because you really want it to be grabbing and compelling.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I've done some things that are in some things that aren't.

[SPEAKER_04]: And that is something that as we wind down to the end of January, 2027, I'm going to have to kind of figure that out in my own mind as far as what that's going to look like because I'd love to make it something that has a little entertainment value.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's all.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that's how we've always done this show.

[SPEAKER_03]: It has to have just a little, little and just a taste.

[SPEAKER_04]: Just a little bit.

[SPEAKER_04]: I look back on this show.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I think people that have listened for a long time would agree that the podcast years of this show, the 17 years doing this, I have never been happier at my work.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was so unhappy during the work you were cranky those were the ice cream cranko because I because Don and I had a way of doing radio that was very methodical and very prepared and very organized and suddenly I went into an environment where I realized not all people work that way and it was kind of difficult for me to do.

[SPEAKER_03]: Don't got that song booty call in every Friday though.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, he was always, he was always, no, it might be.

[SPEAKER_04]: It bothers him.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, well, Jeff Shamrock, I'll say it.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'll go on the record.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's a dick.

[SPEAKER_04]: JLP Design says, what triggered you to make this decision?

[SPEAKER_04]: Most of your fans were hoping you would make it to 75.

[SPEAKER_04]: I, what triggered this decision was the nature of, it's always been.

[SPEAKER_04]: my entire career.

[SPEAKER_04]: The tough part has always been the non-microphone part, the part behind the scenes, the business part, the challenges of that have always been such that, you know, that's always what gets to me and that's what the catalyst was, it was time as well.

[SPEAKER_03]: the worst part of radio and when we got into podcasts and it actually got a lot easier, but it was still there.

[SPEAKER_03]: And it's still sucks.

[SPEAKER_03]: The business of it sucks.

[SPEAKER_03]: And especially so we're such a small unit operating, two, three-man team essentially.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and my vision for this show is we've gotten an awful lot out of just the three of us doing this show, but the challenges of, you know, in order to, from a, from a standpoint of

[SPEAKER_04]: I would have preferred more of a variety of people to interact with, and unfortunately the catch-22, if you're not one of the biggies, that's a greater challenge than it's ever been, based on the number of people to do this.

[SPEAKER_04]: And so that was another one.

[SPEAKER_04]: But that also is kind of a behind-the-scenes element.

[SPEAKER_04]: you know, as far as the decision, I knew it would happen the way it happened.

[SPEAKER_04]: I knew it would get to a point where I'm like,

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, it's time to move on and it's time to smell the roses.

[SPEAKER_04]: I am still challenged to involve myself in everything I want to involve myself in with doing a regular show and prepping a regular show and carving that out each and every day.

[SPEAKER_04]: I told me, yeah, you told me when I joined, I have about two years left.

[SPEAKER_05]: And I was at the end of this, it'll be about three.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, sure.

[SPEAKER_04]: So that's kind of where we were with all of this.

[SPEAKER_04]: And the biggest, one of the best surprises was having Josh with his very unique personality.

[SPEAKER_04]: I agree.

[SPEAKER_04]: Come into the fold here.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I would not want anybody to think that my- You ruined it.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, but we text saying Mike it's time the the the elephant the elephant in the room would always be If we if we look back I don't care how you feel about my politics or Josh's politics, but we were able I think demonstrate

[SPEAKER_04]: better than many, many others, how two people can have diametrically opposed views on things and still coexist based on common ground.

[SPEAKER_04]: That is not only help me as a podcast, but it's helping me as a person because I really think that

[SPEAKER_04]: You can't make any progress at all if you're just going to go FU FU and shut them out.

[SPEAKER_04]: The divide is there.

[SPEAKER_04]: If anything Rob has been more vocal to you because you guys are better friends, I think that's that's fascinating.

[SPEAKER_04]: I hope that continues.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think that's great.

[SPEAKER_04]: I won't go play it so you guys have to start to show over.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's funny that when Josh mentioned the idea of the retirement.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think it was that word as much as what Rob wanted to do was the farewell tour.

[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't want.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't like the word.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I don't be perfectly honest.

[SPEAKER_03]: Josh and I had about 10 words that we mentioned in the meeting and you didn't like any of them.

[SPEAKER_03]: So eventually I just said, okay, I'm not doing this anymore because I meant nothing bad by it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I told you for years, please try to do as little thinking as possible.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what I think.

[SPEAKER_03]: When I think hard it hurts, hurt you right here.

[SPEAKER_04]: The, I found it with the final voyage is so funny.

[SPEAKER_03]: It is.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it is so hysterical that don't, don't.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not.

[SPEAKER_04]: You were, you were, I know you were reaching for it.

[SPEAKER_04]: You were looking for it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Are fucking folded.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not going to do it because it's not funny if I do it now.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's funny if I do it in a half an hour, but it's not funny right now.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're talking about the Titanic.

[SPEAKER_03]: The Titanic was.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's what he's saying.

[SPEAKER_04]: All right.

[SPEAKER_04]: So James, say what I don't understand is if you already knew you were done into why the fundraising

[SPEAKER_04]: on and on.

[SPEAKER_04]: Because those fundraisers are literally to make payroll next week.

[SPEAKER_04]: Check to check is how they're checked to check as much as I hate to say that that is the way it went.

[SPEAKER_04]: And you know, and that's the first I knew I would get a little pushback.

[SPEAKER_04]: on this.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's never clean.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's never easy, but it's the way it is, you know?

[SPEAKER_04]: I said now hug many says I don't like farewell either.

[SPEAKER_04]: My wife gets pissed that I don't say goodbye.

[SPEAKER_04]: To me, those are final, if I say farewell or goodbye, let's see, I'm not expecting to see the person again.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, I get it.

[SPEAKER_03]: I remember, Mike, it's not good by it's just so long.

[SPEAKER_04]: Fancy since 1994, John keeps on trucking says, I only recently found the podcast.

[SPEAKER_04]: I blame the person who labeled you Mike Old Mera, a few weeks back, no, that's funny.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what I was trying to make.

[SPEAKER_04]: That was hysterical.

[SPEAKER_04]: I love that, and you know what?

[SPEAKER_04]: If you, this does not apply to

[SPEAKER_04]: most radio shows or most podcasts.

[SPEAKER_04]: But to this one, it does.

[SPEAKER_04]: If you don't like ballbusting, you're on the wrong show.

[SPEAKER_04]: If you tune it, that's the whole purpose of this show has been

[SPEAKER_04]: doing that.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, and there are other more successful podcasts, Alachil Tony that have built entire shows around the ballbusting, but they are rare, and they are special.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I've always loved that.

[SPEAKER_04]: And as a matter of fact, there is nothing to me.

[SPEAKER_04]: That makes me laugh more than if somebody takes a an arrow and hits their mark when they're talking about me.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's fucking hysterical.

[SPEAKER_04]: One of the things where radio television

[SPEAKER_04]: Everything like this, uh, just left me cold was when we got into the era of Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity where, uh, everything I say is correct.

[SPEAKER_04]: I know everything I cannot be disputed.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is the way it is.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm the, I'm great.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm fantastic.

[SPEAKER_04]: I do this.

[SPEAKER_04]: And these pundits that do

[SPEAKER_04]: overwhelmingly rude to me to get work for that.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, we're just like I was raised in an era where I remember Muhammad Ali and how much my father could not stand Muhammad Ali and so wanted Joe Frazier because he hated the bragging

[SPEAKER_04]: of Muhammad Ali.

[SPEAKER_04]: My father couldn't stand it.

[SPEAKER_04]: He came from a different era where you don't brag.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, and I remember reading an article about George Herbert Walker Bush.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, who was playing baseball on the Yale baseball team and somebody got bullied and

[SPEAKER_04]: HW stood up for him because you kind of, you had that chip back in the day where it's not me me me and all that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I've done a couple projects with Howard Howard did the same thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm the best.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm the greatest.

[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I mean, that's, it gets old.

[SPEAKER_03]: I've worked a little bit with the George Herbert Walker Bush Library and some of the relatives of the Bush family and they're all very nice, but to a person they always say, growing up.

[SPEAKER_03]: we weren't allowed to brag and the very fact that you know if you're a president who has a son who's a president who has a son who's also a governor.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think you've earned a little bit right to brag but it was for Bidden.

[SPEAKER_03]: And that household they said you want to you want to take your energy for breaking, put it in a public service, turn it into something good.

[SPEAKER_04]: And kidding me that Howard announced his retirement yesterday, is that true?

[SPEAKER_03]: I think I would have heard of it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think that would have been on my newsfeed.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I didn't see anything about it I know he's going down to like one hour Is he referring to Howard Stern could be another Howard?

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what that would be through an hour to run.

[SPEAKER_04]: I really was cutting back

[SPEAKER_03]: and uh... that's too funny uh... so uh... that's that's it i do have a question it is yes um... we've gone through changes and i've mike it does pain me that you and i won't make it to thirty four years together um... only thirty three and a change but we've been through so many changes in this show was it weird to go through a change in the show that didn't result from yelling

[SPEAKER_03]: you mean uh... this was the most docile uh... understanding friendly parting of people i've ever seen i mean it was just so easy what we've been through hell before yeah i don't i i i really think that

[SPEAKER_04]: It's been a peaceful time since Josh joined the show.

[SPEAKER_04]: We punch through a little business stuff.

[SPEAKER_04]: Sure, yeah, Josh and me at the beginning.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then, other than that, it is what it is.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I think that I was very upfront as Josh mentioned before about what my plans were going forward.

[SPEAKER_04]: And me no small way that relationship with the two of you guys is what

[SPEAKER_04]: made me do it another year.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think that that's the way I felt.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's it's really something that it's just it's almost like having a kid.

[SPEAKER_04]: It comes up on you and you go, yep.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm okay with that and that's what I said and it's a it's a scary time to when you have a family and you you know and you're moving on I am in a position that you know I will have that online presence not just because I want to be nice but because I also you know want to have a presence online and do what I can with that hopefully but it's not guaranteed and so it's the new frontier and it's a new area and I am very very happy

[SPEAKER_04]: to be at this stage where I have done this for so long.

[SPEAKER_04]: When I mentioned 40, you did the math.

[SPEAKER_04]: You want to hear some numbers on some numbers?

[SPEAKER_04]: Listen, listen, Robin, then we can over- We can get to the end of the day.

[SPEAKER_03]: Now, keep in mind, these figures were done before the show.

[SPEAKER_03]: So you need to add 41 minutes to all of these.

[SPEAKER_03]: Easy math, of course, was the podcast.

[SPEAKER_03]: We've done a 4,795 episodes.

[SPEAKER_03]: and those are about 80 minutes each, okay?

[SPEAKER_03]: We have done 760 bonus shows there in our each.

[SPEAKER_03]: You did about 16 years at WJFK.

[SPEAKER_03]: I thought it was longer, about 7 years at WAVA in the morning.

[SPEAKER_03]: You did about 12 months with Kirk.

[SPEAKER_03]: uh... we did two years or so as the michael mary show uh... on w jfk after the dana mike show ended and so figuring in and these are conservative estimates uh... i'd try to figure in vacation and stuff like that so like for example he did you actually did that for the week of uh... for the button for the dana mike show i did take out

[SPEAKER_03]: nine weeks a year vacation but that must have been nice uh my the total life of you have spent 28 hours on the air not kidding um this is this is a conservative estimate and i couldn't why couldn't believe the way the numbers stacked up you have spent by my estimate and this is just

[SPEAKER_03]: This doesn't count pre-WAVA stuff.

[SPEAKER_03]: This doesn't count you as a college jock or the Bay Country 103 error or anything like that.

[SPEAKER_04]: W-Y-R-E, in anapolis Maryland.

[SPEAKER_03]: 28,995 hours on the air, which is 1,739,700 minutes, and of course the ever-changing 104,382,000 seconds you have been on the radio.

[SPEAKER_03]: They say you need to do something for 10,000 hours to be an expert.

[SPEAKER_03]: You're three times an expert essentially.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's amazing to me.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm happy with those those numbers and happy with the the way the idea of I think that played into it probably subconsciously to me that we were going to do this cruise in January.

[SPEAKER_04]: And that we were committed to doing that and when you're committed to doing something down the road.

[SPEAKER_04]: It makes you realize well this is going to I always like that.

[SPEAKER_04]: people could give a little bit of leeway in a broadcast retirement sense, uh, a lot of the talk show hosts that have done it, uh, because Johnny did it, I think you want to have a run-up way.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think it's a really good way to treat the audience.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I, I like that even though I'm, uh, you know, a tiny little flea in that equation, but it's kind of cool.

[SPEAKER_04]: And the the crews played a role in that, or as we will now refer to it, ladies and gentlemen, the

[SPEAKER_04]: Can we see, can you make that larger so I can get a better look at it?

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what she said, let's just see what that looks like.

[SPEAKER_03]: It looks great.

[SPEAKER_04]: It does look great.

[SPEAKER_04]: There it is.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, no, I got a plan.

[SPEAKER_04]: That is beautiful and you know, I don't know how high your computer's resolution is if you zoom in you can see Mike He's on the third deck there Hulk Commandian says without the show you'll be able to move to the villages without judgment and play pickle ball

[SPEAKER_04]: 1,000 jewels from David.

[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you very much.

[SPEAKER_04]: Goat trophy.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's very sweet.

[SPEAKER_04]: That was your old DJ name?

[SPEAKER_04]: Goat.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_04]: That was trophy.

[SPEAKER_04]: Goat trophy.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's out.

[SPEAKER_04]: So that's the announcement.

[SPEAKER_04]: You have it.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's there.

[SPEAKER_04]: Join us.

[SPEAKER_04]: We have cabins available on the final voyage.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it sounds a little ominous, but please join us.

[SPEAKER_03]: I just want to say the people that didn't bid on dinner with you.

[SPEAKER_03]: What a bad mistake.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I, you know what, and my ego has come into play where now I really do hope Josh that this results in a doubling of the cabin sales for the final voyage.

[SPEAKER_04]: I really do a tripling.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I like that.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, tripling.

[SPEAKER_03]: The man has spent 30,000 hours on the air entertaining you buy a ticket.

[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_04]: Will a cabin not a ticket a ticket a ticket.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's not a live show.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's a cabin to join us for four nights.

[SPEAKER_04]: If you need to buy a ticket to get a ticket.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I will take a break and we'll come back with more tidbits right here on the Michael Mary show will will.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Is it a lawn mower?

[SPEAKER_04]: It's a lawn mower.

[SPEAKER_04]: Tesla's biggest fans are starting to ask whether Elon Musk has lost focus on the car company.

[SPEAKER_04]: The company is still one of the most recognizable names in electric vehicles, but Musk has been dividing his attention among Tesla, space exploration, artificial intelligence, and his other business interests.

[SPEAKER_04]: Some longtime Tesla backers are now questioning whether the company is getting enough of his attention

[SPEAKER_04]: at a time when competition in electric vehicles is exploding.

[SPEAKER_04]: The interesting part is that this isn't just criticism from Tesla haters, some of the people raising the questions are investors who have been deeply loyal to Musk.

[SPEAKER_04]: Do you ever think about that at all, John?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, does it affect you?

[SPEAKER_04]: No, no.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think it's silly to be worried about one, this one guy.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think Tesla would run fine without him, involved with all.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's an interesting take on that.

[SPEAKER_05]: I agree with you by the way.

[SPEAKER_03]: You think the infrastructure that he left is solid enough that the company will continue?

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean, he's got the robotics down.

[SPEAKER_05]: He's just casting a vision.

[SPEAKER_04]: Other guys do all the work.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, all the details and the nuts and bolts.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I think really my opinion of the car company is doesn't the car company continue to innovate and get better?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, that's what they do.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's like saying when Steve Jobs left Apple would be done.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: No, it was all company.

[SPEAKER_05]: There's smart people there.

[SPEAKER_03]: I hear that Musk is going to retire in January.

[SPEAKER_04]: Final car.

[SPEAKER_04]: Crow Armstrong do you know that guy's name he is having one hell of a season for the Cubs Monday night he hit a lead off home run and then came back in the 10th inning and hit a walk off home run to beat the white socks seven to five that makes him only the sixth player in MLB history to hit both a lead off and walk off homer in the same

[SPEAKER_04]: Meanwhile, show hey Otani hit two home runs for the Dodgers because apparently one home just isn't enough.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, they travel in pairs.

[SPEAKER_04]: Don't they?

[SPEAKER_04]: That's very, very exciting.

[SPEAKER_04]: We have more sports news.

[SPEAKER_04]: My team, the New York Giants, have people actually feeling optimistic.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's always dangerous after losing their preseason opener, Minnesota, a 13 to 10.

[SPEAKER_04]: The giants are getting good reviews for some of their young players.

[SPEAKER_04]: Jackson Darts showed some promising moments and the defense has generated a lot of energy under new head coach John Harbaugh.

[SPEAKER_04]: The giants are still a team with a lot to prove, but for the first time in a while, there's a little buzz around him.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now, as a giants fan who watched the game over the weekend, I will tell you even though they

[SPEAKER_04]: the game, so it doesn't really matter in preseason, but I will tell you that the first teamers looked very good, looked very, very, very good, but there was a moment where Jackson Dart got smashed by a defensive lineman, or maybe a cornerback that was blitzing, and I thought he was done.

[SPEAKER_04]: I thought he was done for the season.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's how hard the hit was, he's got to avoid.

[SPEAKER_04]: those hits.

[SPEAKER_04]: It helps if Tyrone Tracy stands in front of the guy and maybe attempts just a slight block of him in your, in your expert opinion, how do the Vikings look?

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't care.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't care.

[SPEAKER_04]: The real test will come September 13th when they open the regular season against the Dallas Cowboy.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, America's team.

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[SPEAKER_04]: uh... micro yeah 300 miles to the east and i drove you know what you're doing hold on policy uh... yeah rob mic your dick micro you're doing five hundred miles to the south yeah right these standing in poop

[SPEAKER_05]: poop everywhere.

[SPEAKER_03]: Morgan dramas.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, well, that's that's your next thing.

[SPEAKER_05]: Hunter T. M. O. S. My God, Thomas.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, my go dramas is what they'll be called.

[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, micro dramas are exploding in popularity with very short highly addictive serialized stories designed specifically for phone screens.

[SPEAKER_04]: The format started taking off in China and is now becoming a big business in the United States.

[SPEAKER_04]: The episodes are short.

[SPEAKER_04]: The stories are over the top and they're designed to keep you clicking from one episode to the next, basically soap operas for people who can't sit through a commercial.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is stupid.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is like if you when I was a kid there was a show called three to one contact.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was on PBS and they had a mini show called the bloodhound gang and each episode was like 90 seconds And but it was a mystery show so it took forever to tell the story so they're just redoing the bloodhound gang or spin and Marty or anything like that

[SPEAKER_05]: And a few years ago, there was a push for, that's made content vertical, and TV shows.

[SPEAKER_05]: And a bunch of companies invested in it, and it went out of business.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think Kevin Hart was attached to it.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, the only thing I can add to this is that Mrs. Omar was scrolling last night.

[SPEAKER_04]: And, you know, I don't think this is any kind of bulletin, but it said that young athletes, little leaders, high school, middle school athletes, should eliminate any telephone, any phone, cell phone,

[SPEAKER_04]: an hour prior to athletic competition, because it makes the brain all moving.

[SPEAKER_04]: I, you know what?

[SPEAKER_03]: I try not to screen before bed.

[SPEAKER_03]: I try to give my mind an hour before bed before moving.

[SPEAKER_04]: Every tough every study in the world would tell you that that's exactly what you should do.

[SPEAKER_04]: I want to throw this name out because I had not heard it until I started researching this story Cratum KRA-A-T-O-M have you Either one of you heard of this substance the best mac and cheese on the shelf is based on craft what?

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[SPEAKER_04]: They rose from 258 in 2015, guess it's been around for a while, to 3,434 in 2025.

[SPEAKER_04]: That is an increase of about 1,200%.

[SPEAKER_04]: And the big jump wasn't just people calling because they felt a little sick.

[SPEAKER_04]: The report found increases in serious outcomes, including hospitalizations, seizures, abnormal heart rhythms, liver problems, and breathing difficulties.

[SPEAKER_04]: Cratum comes from a through a tree native to southeast Asia, and it acts on the brain's opioid.

[SPEAKER_04]: no help opioid receptors a at lower amounts people may use it for energy or alertness at higher amounts it can produce opioid like effects the problem is the product sold in gas station smoke shops and online can vary wildly in potency and some concentrated products contain much higher levels of seven oh then ordinary cradom leaf.

[SPEAKER_03]: I just I

[SPEAKER_03]: be moan the whole notion of buying anything that even approaches medicine at a gas station counter.

[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, if if they package it and put it with like the bear aspirin on an aisle may, but don't buy that stuff.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's on the counter.

[SPEAKER_04]: But get yourself a nice apple fritter.

[SPEAKER_03]: I love an apple fritter.

[SPEAKER_04]: They're delicious in the gas station.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't care how long they've been sitting there.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's the preservatives.

[SPEAKER_04]: Finally today, there is a movie in China that may have discovered the most powerful marketing strategy of all time.

[SPEAKER_04]: What is it?

[SPEAKER_04]: Make everybody say it sucks.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's an animated film called New Lie.

[SPEAKER_04]: I-N-I-U-L-A-I, New Lie.

[SPEAKER_04]: It has been mocked online for its extremely basic, almost eerie-looking, 3D animation.

[SPEAKER_04]: People have been making fun of how bad the characters look.

[SPEAKER_04]: And somehow that negative buzz has helped turn the movie into a box of a smash.

[SPEAKER_04]: So there may be a lesson here for Michael Marishow listeners.

[SPEAKER_04]: If everybody says you show it's terrible Don't panic you just need more people to say it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah Final voyage everybody all right.

[SPEAKER_04]: We'll take a little break.

[SPEAKER_04]: We will step out

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[SPEAKER_04]: When movies,

[SPEAKER_04]: are full of themselves.

[SPEAKER_04]: This will be very brief.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not going to look around this kind of ties back into that Japanese thing.

[SPEAKER_03]: Is this movie so bad you need to talk about it?

[SPEAKER_04]: No, it's not.

[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe it was.

[SPEAKER_04]: It would be more fun, but it's not.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's not.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's not.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's not.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is 2025 movie.

[SPEAKER_04]: I streamed it last night.

[SPEAKER_04]: We stayed.

[SPEAKER_04]: Mrs. O'Mara and I stayed with it because it had Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield to very prominent actors that are supposed to be very very good.

[SPEAKER_03]: Did he ever climb inside her mouth in this movie?

[SPEAKER_03]: Because he's tiny.

[SPEAKER_04]: he's very small man.

[SPEAKER_04]: I am tired.

[SPEAKER_04]: I've watched my last self-important self-righteous self-serving self-indulgent film.

[SPEAKER_04]: It is just tedious.

[SPEAKER_04]: Julia Roberts plays a Yale college professor.

[SPEAKER_04]: So you've got that part where they're all like mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub, mub,

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, where it's like, aren't we intellectually ahead of everybody else?

[SPEAKER_04]: And so you got that.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now I don't mind that.

[SPEAKER_04]: Because I like smart people and I value.

[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you, Mike.

[SPEAKER_04]: I value educated people.

[SPEAKER_04]: Not you.

[SPEAKER_04]: I value educated people.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I think that we are in a period of time where that isn't valued enough.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I'm okay with that.

[SPEAKER_04]: All right.

[SPEAKER_04]: But when it's all the pretense and very good.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, here's a great, you know what a great example of intellectual achievement is, uh, goodwill hunting.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's one of the, that is just, that shows you what brain power can do.

[SPEAKER_04]: It really, really does.

[SPEAKER_04]: And, you know, and you get the pretense of the university, but you also get the value of study and an intellectual accomplishment.

[SPEAKER_04]: You get that out of them.

[SPEAKER_04]: This movie,

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, she plays a Yale professor or a Yale graduate, Yale professor, what does the interview Garfield play?

[SPEAKER_04]: He plays another professor and they are both up for 10 year.

[SPEAKER_03]: And they are coming out and she is married to a different guy, but they have a past.

[SPEAKER_03]: I see, and the name of the movie is,

[SPEAKER_04]: is let me say I wrote it down after the hunt.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh Robert.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, hunt is the word.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, I knew you were going to go there.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was just restating it, that's all.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's another film that you watched in your private time and just did what I was.

[SPEAKER_03]: That was a micro drama is what it was.

[SPEAKER_03]: I only watched it for a couple minutes.

[SPEAKER_04]: I have an unpublished novel.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, that's terrible.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to do that.

[SPEAKER_04]: So do, I mean, that's right.

[SPEAKER_04]: John Keith's on track.

[SPEAKER_04]: It says, you are in the presence of a 136 IQ.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's right.

[SPEAKER_03]: And John, you're tuning in to listen to him.

[SPEAKER_03]: So there, question, do Garfield and Roberts.

[SPEAKER_03]: Did you immediately think, Lizonio, when you said it like that?

[SPEAKER_03]: Is he in order to cat that hates Monday?

[SPEAKER_03]: Does Garfield and Roberts do they do it in the movie?

[SPEAKER_03]: Is there that kind of sexual tension?

[SPEAKER_03]: Because he's too young for her.

[SPEAKER_04]: They have done it.

[SPEAKER_04]: but they don't do it at that time.

[SPEAKER_03]: There's no, like, I'm not, I don't care about this, but it's not hard or he tries to do it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, okay, in fact, that's one of the most significant moments

[SPEAKER_04]: of the film.

[SPEAKER_04]: However, the film just meanders.

[SPEAKER_03]: It meanders and he's supporting actors to boost it all that we know.

[SPEAKER_04]: Nobody that doesn't, you know, a great guy.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's just a, it got like 36% on Rottenton.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because what would be great to me is if you had the same movie, but one of the students was played by Jelly Roll.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hold on, I got him.

[SPEAKER_03]: Don't you think that being good with me?

[SPEAKER_03]: Hold on now, hold on.

[SPEAKER_04]: OK, there we go.

[SPEAKER_04]: I put myself one time.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, thank you.

[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you, Don't feel the thing is, these movies, I got to check them again.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to go back to my old habit of even if it's a streaming film, checking it on the tomatoes before I arrived.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, you got to check the tomatoes.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so avoid it.

[SPEAKER_03]: The worst thing you can do is the top 10 most popular movies in America today according to Netflix.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's always gotten minions on it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Minions is like 30 years old.

[SPEAKER_04]: Stop not one last thing before we move on.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're running late, of course, as usual.

[SPEAKER_04]: Major announcement, of course, if you just tuned in, ladies and gentlemen, I'm retiring the end of January.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's right, because Carlos with child.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, she is.

[SPEAKER_04]: And we are going to I'm going to devote my time of raising the baby and you're going to midwife it.

[SPEAKER_03]: You're going to be her duly.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm going to I'm going to do that.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's why you're going to be my next career.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to be a duly.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's why you were in the in the pool this while making sure it was okay for the birth.

[SPEAKER_03]: My thoughts by the way to the first home, Dominion.

[SPEAKER_02]: We you'd have to go a lot more than double.

[SPEAKER_04]: uh... for me to stick around you don't thank you uh... say an extra week no uh... let me let me just say that uh... that's totally through me for a loop uh... what i said this uh... how about this you do that and then we'll see double the money and then we'll see mm-hmm that's what that's the way my dad would have handled it back in the day

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you do that and then we'll move on from there.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, we'll fade away that when we come to it.

[SPEAKER_04]: All right, last little thing here, I think most people feel the same way.

[SPEAKER_04]: When you ask, when you haven't seen somebody for a summer, like school-related person, I'm not going to mention any names here.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not going to mention any occupations.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's not a teacher, but here's the thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: When you ask about someone, how is your summer?

[SPEAKER_05]: that's a courtesy ask okay that's not I really want to know if something you don't care you generally don't care I think that's a northern thing I think when people ask down here the people who are really from down here actually do mean and want to know

[SPEAKER_03]: It's way that's weird because it's for the no desire.

[SPEAKER_05]: I've no interest.

[SPEAKER_05]: I have no interest.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's summer all year round down there.

[SPEAKER_05]: And Marilyn, you just tell people busy and that's acceptable by everyone.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't want to know if it's good.

[SPEAKER_04]: No, I don't even want to know if it's not.

[SPEAKER_03]: Here's the deal, Mike.

[SPEAKER_03]: If it's someone that you'd care enough to really want to know about their summer, you already know about it because you've talked about it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_03]: And if you haven't, you just say, fine, hot, whatever, just piss off.

[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

[SPEAKER_04]: Don't be a jerk.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: But especially if it's a negative, you don't want that.

[SPEAKER_04]: And the answer was something like, well, I was here.

[SPEAKER_04]: you know, it's like, okay, sorry.

[SPEAKER_04]: I asked, you know, I didn't need that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I really didn't need that little moment and believe in my value of that time.

[SPEAKER_04]: All right.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't need it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm looking for it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, it's great.

[SPEAKER_04]: How is yours super?

[SPEAKER_04]: See you later.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what I wanted.

[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, how was your summer?

[SPEAKER_04]: It was great.

[SPEAKER_04]: That was yours.

[SPEAKER_04]: Super.

[SPEAKER_04]: Fantastic.

[SPEAKER_04]: See you later.

[SPEAKER_03]: Don't ask Josh.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's no time.

[SPEAKER_04]: Actually, we had a spectacular summer, and I know you don't care.

[SPEAKER_04]: But we did.

[SPEAKER_04]: I love the time with my kid.

[SPEAKER_04]: I loved every minute of it.

[SPEAKER_04]: A lot of him, him, him.

[SPEAKER_04]: And we're going back to baseball again.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're very, very excited.

[SPEAKER_04]: And he's going out for the golf team this week.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm Wednesday.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I remember he tried out last year.

[SPEAKER_03]: How did he do last year for the team?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and the coach said they're going to they're going to base it on scores this year scoring as far as who makes the team.

[SPEAKER_04]: So we're going out to the range to work on it today.

[SPEAKER_05]: If I got new chips or like we'll behave as a based on last last year.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't I got no idea I only they hand some guys were great attitude.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know father Father, yeah your father's connected well might be hard this year what was the final voyage coming up flat a voyage coming up and in January Hope to see you there ladies and gentlemen

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[SPEAKER_04]: We will come back and something the boys are going to talk about Rod's injury.

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[SPEAKER_04]: All right, so I put something in parentheses.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm curious what you wrote.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I wrote on my show prep today, Rob's injury.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then I put something in parentheses.

[SPEAKER_04]: And let's hear about your injury before I talk about what's in parentheses.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right, two things I want to say to preface this quickly is it always used to bother me when they would show a close-up of David Letterman's hands on TV because they looked like he had just come out of the field.

[SPEAKER_03]: They were horrible, they were cuticles all over the oftentimes a cut, sometimes a band-aid, so I do want to, I don't like when things happen to my hands.

[SPEAKER_03]: So Josh has always given me a hard time.

[SPEAKER_03]: He says, your problem, Robb, is you have too many sharp things at your desk.

[SPEAKER_03]: I have, of course, the knife that's the model from Psycho.

[SPEAKER_03]: I have a box cutter.

[SPEAKER_03]: I've got all these things, but I think the most common thing I'm glad this caught up with you that I keep up with Mike and also you'll appreciate this from being having a past in radio in radio stations.

[SPEAKER_03]: They always have little razor blades

[SPEAKER_04]: It's all regular traditional straight razor.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, for not for shaving, but for cutting tape.

[SPEAKER_03]: And cutting.

[SPEAKER_04]: But also, you know, you possibly have a razor blade at your desk.

[SPEAKER_03]: I have four of them right now and within my sight.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because they're like an exacto knife.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're great for like trimming stuff.

[SPEAKER_03]: You can also use them to just cut paper if you want like half a sheet of paper scraping.

[SPEAKER_03]: They're good for scraping.

[SPEAKER_05]: You're a list of the single thing that Micah, I have done at our desk.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, they mean a lot to me and maybe it is just habit and I've got a box of them too, but here just so you know I'm not lying on the little shelf in front of me right now.

[SPEAKER_03]: Here are my four razor blades that I have at the ready Okay any spot on your desk.

[SPEAKER_05]: Do you have a pair of scissors?

[SPEAKER_03]: I do that's another sharp thing.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'll do everything Move that you have no it won't scrape everything scrape what?

[SPEAKER_03]: Like if you have a like goo on a box or something you need to scrape it off like like glue I think the scissors would work

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, with Lu on a box, what are you doing?

[SPEAKER_04]: Are you making paper, machine, airplanes?

[SPEAKER_04]: What the fuck are I'm just ready?

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: And here's a use for it that it can be designed and lips.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: How about fuck you?

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: I had a small peeling piece of leather on the back door of my car because you know, it's a 14 year old car and in the one on your car, peeling leather, you know, like my lips, Mike.

[SPEAKER_03]: What do you mean peeling leather, you know how there's like on if you look at the back door of a car You're gonna have the handle and the armrest and then there's like a little leather panel That's just basically decor, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and so I guess the glue got too hot and started to peel on the edges

[SPEAKER_03]: So I did some research and they said the best way to fix this, you can get self adhesive, black, leather, simulated in a role.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's mostly used for fixing like desk chairs.

[SPEAKER_03]: So it's like wide tape.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's leather to fix it.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I had to make sure it was the right shape.

[SPEAKER_03]: What are you doing?

[SPEAKER_03]: That's it, a musician.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, you don't normally play with your waddle when I talk.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just wondering what's going on.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's thinking of putting some leather tape down there.

[SPEAKER_03]: Every tiring January, so I got it.

[SPEAKER_03]: And in order to make sure that it was the exact right size, I had to peel the other piece off.

[SPEAKER_03]: to use it as like a template and I laid it down and I sketched it around it with a silver sharpie so I knew the shape and I to cut it I said you know what scissors would work but what would be easier is if I just held the old piece of leather on the new leather and used this razor blade to cut around it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

[SPEAKER_03]: Like a cutting board or something.

[SPEAKER_04]: By the way, you have

[SPEAKER_04]: I wrote down item number six, middle of the pack.

[SPEAKER_04]: So you were up there on the hit parade.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Rob's injury, parentheses, it'll be bullshit.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, this is not bullshit.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's what it is.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's stupidity, Mike.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, it's not like you misguided the way you do it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, well, but it gets so stupid because I was so excited to figure out that I was going to do this cutting on the template.

[SPEAKER_03]: I grabbed the razor and you know, you have to put a decent amount of pressure on the

[SPEAKER_03]: the razor was upside down.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I was pushing with my index razor was upside down.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was blade side up because I was stupid and I wasn't paying attention and I grabbed it and when I pressed with my index finger to get the pressure picked it up thinking you were going to cut and you were on the right.

[SPEAKER_03]: How in the name of God, the beauty of this is because the razor is so sharp, you don't realize you've cut yourself right away, because it, you know, a dull knife hurts more to cut yourself in a sharp knife.

[SPEAKER_04]: Index finger?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, right here.

[SPEAKER_03]: It started to heal up now, but it was, I looked down and I said, what is that crap all over the left?

[SPEAKER_03]: so it's my blood.

[UNKNOWN]: Oh my god.

[SPEAKER_03]: And this is the thing that really bothered me is that it was a bleeder for like two days.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I had to keep a bandaid on it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Why is so come at the end saying they're having their own things.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: I sometimes I have to ignore them.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so I had to keep a bandaid on it and then I realized that once it healed, it kind of wrecked my fingerprint, so I couldn't use the fingerprint to get to my pad anymore because my fingerprint was gone and with the bandaid on

[SPEAKER_03]: The Apple screens don't react to it.

[SPEAKER_03]: So like I could tap the iPad and it wouldn't take.

[SPEAKER_03]: So Mike, I had to start tripping the iPad with my middle finger.

[SPEAKER_03]: No.

[SPEAKER_05]: Stop, this razor plate pushing down on the wrong side.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, you've done this before.

[SPEAKER_05]: I have, but never this bad.

[SPEAKER_04]: Are you thinking about losing the razor is now?

[SPEAKER_03]: No, I'm thinking about losing my fingers.

[SPEAKER_03]: But that is, I mean, I've had some stupid injuries in the past.

[SPEAKER_03]: Someday, ask me about the band saw at the Christmas tree stand.

[SPEAKER_03]: This was a stupid one.

[SPEAKER_03]: But this is all time stupid.

[SPEAKER_03]: And also, remember, I'm 55 years old.

[SPEAKER_03]: I should know better than this.

[SPEAKER_04]: Did you ever have an injury with a, what do they call them?

[SPEAKER_04]: Mandolin slicer?

[SPEAKER_04]: Did you ever have an injury with no?

[SPEAKER_03]: I've always been very, very careful with the mandolin slicer.

[SPEAKER_03]: I wasn't.

[SPEAKER_04]: I took a whole tip of a finger off one.

[SPEAKER_03]: I had to take a friend to an emergency room once because when I say tip, I don't mean like the knuckle out.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean like the skin, the clean sliced.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was looking down at it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was like an onion and then there was my finger right there.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: You got to be careful with a mandal in slice from also with a chainsaw.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I'm not, uh, but listen, I did that.

[SPEAKER_04]: I did that terrible injury, but I'm not, I'm not going around lying about my IQ.

[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, thank God for that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Let's take a ball.

[SPEAKER_03]: All you lie about is this upcoming retirement.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's it.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's all a big lose.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's a scam.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, I like that some beautiful video.

[SPEAKER_04]: Jerry.

[SPEAKER_03]: Before we get to the video, Rick Scofield reminded me of the fact that one time I was warning Robert about how sharp the blade is in a food processor that I knocked it off the counter and tried to catch it I nearly cut my finger off.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's another good stupid one.

[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you, Richard.

[SPEAKER_03]: He should've.

[SPEAKER_03]: Mitch McConnell has recently come out and said that he is staunchly refusing to address the public while he recovers.

[SPEAKER_03]: So with that in mind, I think it's nice that his grandkids have reached out to talk about the Mitch McConnell.

[SPEAKER_03]: We don't know.

[SPEAKER_06]: There is a guy who has grandkids.

[SPEAKER_07]: Let's talk about it.

[SPEAKER_06]: We know the real grandpa Mitch.

[SPEAKER_07]: The one, the media won't tell you about it.

[SPEAKER_06]: The grandpa would taught me everything I know about girls.

[SPEAKER_07]: The grandpa taught me how to count calories.

[SPEAKER_06]: The grandpa who bathed me until I was 14 because he knew I was scared.

[SPEAKER_07]: The grandpa told me don't shave down there ever.

[SPEAKER_06]: One time he drove all the way from DC just to see my tuberous saddle.

[SPEAKER_07]: He called me a fat, skank for rinks.

[SPEAKER_06]: He called me sometimes you run into a room naked and go, I'm Mr. Rinkles, I'm Mr. Rinkles.

[SPEAKER_06]: We've been taking anywhere.

[SPEAKER_06]: The grandpa who always made his iconic noise.

[SPEAKER_07]: They always sell it through the stand-in.

[SPEAKER_06]: The grandpa would pull my pants down and just fake me for hours.

[SPEAKER_07]: He hated poor people.

[SPEAKER_07]: He thought they were smelly.

[SPEAKER_06]: And you're good too.

[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, those are Mitch's grandkids.

[SPEAKER_03]: And although I'm not sure that's real.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god.

[SPEAKER_04]: They look like they could be his grandkids.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what's great.

[SPEAKER_04]: Two footing.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, that's great.

[SPEAKER_03]: Mike, do you remember from our past, Dr. Parkenstein?

[SPEAKER_03]: Parkinson's time.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, I don't.

[SPEAKER_03]: We've not checked in with Dr. Parkinson's time in a while, but yesterday was his birthday.

[SPEAKER_03]: And he is the gentleman that appears to be in his mid 20s that lives life like it's the 1920s.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: And this is him celebrating his birthday.

[SPEAKER_03]: This to me is as close to a nightmare on screen as I've ever seen.

[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, today is my 26th birthday and I will be dancing the Charleston.

[SPEAKER_09]: Why are you asked?

[SPEAKER_09]: Can I feel like it and I want to?

[SPEAKER_09]: Why not?

[SPEAKER_09]: It's like this before it's in this game.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we've had it in time.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but it's his birthday.

[SPEAKER_03]: He has to move the table.

[SPEAKER_03]: The ceiling is like suspiciously.

[SPEAKER_05]: Otherworldly low.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, but I like moving the furniture because it proves it's a real room.

[SPEAKER_09]: but I'm the camera.

[SPEAKER_09]: I have it.

[SPEAKER_09]: Sounds like Carmen.

[SPEAKER_03]: What's great is really cool in that.

[SPEAKER_09]: Anyway, let's continue.

[SPEAKER_03]: So he's going to crank up the record plate and some stains on his pants.

[SPEAKER_09]: It is from 1922, I believe.

[SPEAKER_09]: It is yes, we have no bananas.

[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, I like his period outfit, but I'm not sure that a lot of people had a giant afro in the 1920s.

[SPEAKER_03]: No.

[SPEAKER_03]: But he is a hell of a dancer.

[SPEAKER_03]: He's a hell of a dancer.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I like the Charleston too.

[SPEAKER_03]: Mike, you'll love this.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is to me the Nightmare part.

[SPEAKER_03]: I want to see the rest of the house.

[SPEAKER_03]: We've seen his kitchen before, Josh.

[SPEAKER_09]: I don't feel any height.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Hopefully he doesn't hit anything.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, here he goes.

[SPEAKER_04]: He's doing a good job, Stan.

[SPEAKER_03]: I know, but still.

[SPEAKER_04]: Everything is just wrong.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's a great, though.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm enjoying it.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's what counts.

[SPEAKER_04]: Isn't it sad that he's in a room by himself?

[SPEAKER_04]: Do it this way.

[SPEAKER_04]: I just want to know what the rest of the house looks like to Josh.

[SPEAKER_03]: All right, you know what, I will look around and see if I can find some more park in Stein videos because it is first time we Stein.

[SPEAKER_04]: I really, really, really do.

[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, my, you didn't do a lot of work in retail.

[SPEAKER_03]: I did Josh, did you have any past and retail?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I've done retail.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, I did retail.

[SPEAKER_04]: I did retail.

[SPEAKER_04]: I worked for a Cats Creative Decorating.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's right.

[SPEAKER_03]: And how did it end?

[SPEAKER_04]: It ended uh, Jen, he said, generally things haven't worked out.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it's the only time my father ever like fought a battle for me.

[SPEAKER_04]: He called Dick Katz with the emphasis on Dick and gave him a, you know, shit about firing me.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, because I guess it doesn't.

[SPEAKER_04]: I do think it's good to treat a kid like that.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, maybe on not on your scale of values, Dick.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hang up.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's pretty great.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it was great.

[SPEAKER_04]: I felt good.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then did he dance?

[SPEAKER_04]: He did the Charleston.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's my father, Bill O'Mare, and 1972, Bill O'Mare was slightly longer here.

[SPEAKER_03]: He just didn't come it out.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, you have to watch out and retail for shop lifters.

[SPEAKER_03]: And one of the key ways to prevent shop lifting is, especially if you work at a counter, like at a jewelry store or a place like that, don't put too much stuff out on the counter at once, because

[SPEAKER_03]: You'll see, you'll not notice it, but you put stuff out one at a time, you'll notice if it goes.

[SPEAKER_03]: But this lady, I would never have the guts to try to steal a shoe polisher.

[SPEAKER_03]: This teaches you how to avoid shoplifting.

[SPEAKER_01]: A professional shoplifter can get an item between her legs without you seeing that item.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my gosh.

[SPEAKER_01]: This method can be used in any store.

[SPEAKER_04]: Any store?

[SPEAKER_01]: This man had a profitable day.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's good merchandising to display as few articles on the counter as possible.

[SPEAKER_01]: A boosting has to take a loan.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's got clips on his balance.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's got it.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I'd love to have that transistor radio because you could listen to music.

[SPEAKER_03]: Um, two more two quickies here.

[SPEAKER_03]: Um, we're all dog owners none of us own Huskies Huskies.

[SPEAKER_03]: I think we know are the most vocal Yes type of dog they how and you know I will get an occasional bark from Sebastian if we don't get up in time to feed him and let him out But nothing like this.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, whoa be under the person that owns three Huskie dogs

[SPEAKER_08]: It's 7.30 in the morning.

[SPEAKER_08]: You're so cool.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe the best dog video you have ever had.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I can't even.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is what I will miss.

[SPEAKER_04]: Moments like this.

[SPEAKER_03]: Just a little palette cleanser.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's fantastic.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I'm not quiet.

[SPEAKER_03]: And now let's close with this.

[SPEAKER_03]: We talked about you and Josh's your favorite restaurant yesterday.

[SPEAKER_03]: And this kind of puts it all into perspective for every.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a steakhouse chilies, and it's a Mexican chilies.

[SPEAKER_00]: And seafood chilies, that's a sporty chilies.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's apple-bees.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's like, that's your beautiful video.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, great!

[SPEAKER_04]: Chili's white success with apple-bees.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, my humble opinion.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't like the apple-bees.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not a fan either.

[SPEAKER_03]: No, I'm not fan.

[SPEAKER_04]: Sorry, I'm good.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm happy.

[SPEAKER_04]: Are you okay?

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm happy.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm happy.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah, the motor skills start to go when you're a senior.

[SPEAKER_03]: I was going to say is this something mechanical or something emotional?

[SPEAKER_04]: We're going to get out of here.

[SPEAKER_04]: Thanks for listening.

[SPEAKER_04]: We'll be back tomorrow with a brand new episode, taping a little later on in the day because I got a doctor's appointment.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, girl, that's what I do.

[SPEAKER_04]: For Joshua Goodrops, Feewag, this is Michael Marazang, so long, everybody.

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